Ground & Rise® Tarot with Sam Starr
A grounded way to work intuitively with the Tarot.
For coaches and consultants who hold space for others, Ground & Rise® Tarot offers a grounded, psychologically informed way to sustain your own reflective practice through learning to read Tarot psychologically, or gathering in circle to pull cards, or experiencing an online Tarot consultation.
Blending psychosynthesis with Tarot, the Ground & Rise® approach supports archetypal exploration, somatic awareness and the self-reflection essential to your professional growth.
Where Tarot becomes a pathway to your own inner authority
Ways to work with Ground & Rise®:
Your monthly Tarot Circle
The Ground & Rise Tarot Gathering is where we come together online each month to pull cards, reflect in community, and work with the guidance that unfolds through what we draw for the month ahead.
£9 per circle, come to a session free of charge to see if it’s for you (code FIRSTFREE).
Begin or deepen your personal journey with tarot as a tool for reflection and growth.
Explore at your own pace with the Ground & Rise® Self-Support Booklet, or join a Beginner’s Tarot Course to learn the foundations.
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Sarah Hayes, Holistic Financial Wellness specialist
For when you would like a space to pull cards each month in a grounded and psychological way.
Meeting at 6pm UK time on the last Tuesday of the month, the monthly tarot gathering meets online to pull cards for the month ahead and reflect on the messages from the archetypes.
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Eva Sanner, Coach and Therapist
A one-to-one space for reflection, clarity, and reconnection with your inner wisdom.
Together, we’ll explore what’s unfolding through the archetypes and stories of the cards – using tarot as a mirror for self-understanding and a guide toward new perspectives and grounded insight.
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I believe that when we pull cards psychologically, we discover our own answers and deepen presence…
and Ground & Rise® Tarot gets us there.
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Bigger picture guidance
I was at a point in my life when I needed to make a big decision. After working with Sam I felt so much clearer and it gave me the courage to take the next step. I hadn’t worked with tarot before but it was a fantastic platform and gave a kind of ‘bigger picture’ guidance
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SME Founder
Finding your way back home
I would highly recommend Sam as a guide for anyone who is ready to do the inner work and open to a more spiritual approach – something I believe is essential for truly exploring our inner landscape.
She is a wise and compassionate guide who gently supports you in finding your way back home to yourself.
Valentina, Coach
Reassured and refreshed!
Sam engaged deeply with the cards, and with me, to make sense of what the cards could mean for my current and future path for my career and my personal healing.
This has really added clarity for me for where I am now. I feel reassured and refreshed!
S.L, Change-management consultant
The Ground & Rise® framework
Ground & Rise® combines the healing principles of psychosynthesis psychology and tarot which together create a guided pathway out of confusion, towards integration and a more harmonious life.
Psychosynthesis is a psychology that trusts our innate capacity to heal and grow. It helps us recognise the many inner parts that make up our experience and invites them into a steadier relationship, so the path ahead becomes a little clearer.
Often described as a depth or soul psychology, psychosynthesis offers a map for moving between our everyday challenges and higher potential.
Within Ground & Rise®, this psychological map meets the symbolic language of the tarot. The cards act as archetypal guides, not predicting anything, but helping us notice patterns, shifts and unconscious callings. They offer an experience of self while exploring the territory.Â
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Bringing different parts of the self into dialogue and harmony
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Using tarot imagery to deepen insight and reflection
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Noticing limiting beliefs and habitual mindsets
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Exploring patterns and archetypes that shape identity and relationship
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Inviting creative, intuitive exploration
Through this work, we learn to recognise our inner landscape with compassion and familiarity – seeing where energy is flowing freely and where it’s asking for integration. With this awareness the path feels easier to walk. Greater presence and aligned action emerge and a more explored inner territory begins to take shape.
Zoom in to explore the Ground & Rise® Framework:
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Sam Starr
I’ve been pulling cards all my adult life. My dad died when I was 18 and my mum is a drinker, so I didn’t have much stability. The cards gave me hope – a way of connecting to guidance and to feel like someone was listening.
But I never touched the Tarot! It always felt too big and scary and like it needed a proper introduction.
Fast forward a few decades. I joined a Tarot Academy whilst completing a Master’s degree in psychosynthesis psychology, a psychology that asserts that we have an innate capacity to heal and grow psychologically and spiritually.
This is when I started experimenting – mapping the cards onto psychosynthesis models of Self. Something about it just clicked. The cards suddenly spoke clearly. The context wasn’t abstract or mystical anymore; it was a psychological language that I understood.
This was a pathway to healing.
Psychosynthesis gave me a way to stay grounded and not worry if I was ‘doing’ it right or misinterpreting. Discovering the Tarot as a tool for psychosynthesis (meaningful change) eventually became my thesis, and it formed the foundation of Ground & Rise® Tarot.
And nowadays, when I start to feel a bit untethered, I pick up a deck and just shuffle, draw a card, sit with it. This always calms me down, and brings me back to the present moment, feeling connected to Self, while also connecting to the Great Mystery and my dad.
Ground & Rise® Tarot is a remarkable companion and tool for personal and spiritual growth that I’d love to share with you.
Sometimes all we need is a pause – a moment to listen, reflect, and notice what’s already speaking from within
NEW: SELF-SUPPORT BOOKLET NOW AVAILABLE
Looking for a grounded way to deepen your connection with the Tarot?
The Ground & Rise® Tarot Self-Support Booklet is a downloadable guide offering intuitive, psychologically informed interpretations of every card, along with four reflective spreads for self-enquiry and decision-making.
It’s a companion for beginners, students, and anyone wishing to build a more grounded, personal relationship with the Tarot.
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